Hello friend, I'm Eriol Fox! my pronouns are they/them 🦊 I'm a designer based in the South West of the UK, I'm non-binary, queer and have complex PTSD.

🤔 I’m currently...

• Working Part-time at simplysecure.org where I do design and product management for OSS specifically Hypha
• Doing a PhD in Computer Science at Newcastle univeristy with support from Northern Bridge fund looking at how designers participate in humanitarian open source software projects. See the open research in the github repo.
• Helping keep the community going at Open Source Design
• Participating in Human Rights Centred Design Community
• Part of Sustaining Design & UX working group including our podcast SOS Design
• Helping the community grow at Open IDEO London chapter
• Part of the design team at Mutualaid.world
• Speaking at Various tech and design conferences
• Mentoring two(+) early career designers! Via private mentoring and ADP List

🗝️ I was part of...

• Leading UX and Product Design at Open Food Network
• Design team at Ushahidi
• Open Source Designer at Foss Responders
• Decor and game jam co-ordinator at Bristol Pride

How sponsorship helps me

While I'm able to make a living from my part-time job at OFN and Part-time paid PhD I do a lot of unpaid OSS work as an open-source designer as well as talk regularly with people on diversity and inclusion. My role is contract and doesn't have holiday or sick pay benefits and runs on unstable funding streams. Sponsorship allows me to have other sources of funding for what I do in OSS.